Child Protection and GBV National Adviser

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Child Protection National Adviser is responsible for providing leadership and guidance for Save the Children in Peru. The role holder will strengthen Country office capacity to provide high-quality Child Protection programming, including child protection in emergencies in the framework of the Global Goal Live Free of Violence. S/he will provide strategic and technical leadership and assume responsibility for the growth, development and quality of the portfolio, with a focus on children in a migratory context. She/He must have a proven track record in Child Protection in humanitarian and development contexts, as well as experience in programme design, capacity development and programme delivery. She/He will need to have a thorough understanding of gender approach to advise a team that works with GBV case management.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and to be available to deploy or to any humanitarian project ongoing.

Requirements

• Degree in Law, psychology, social work, social sciences, or another relevant field.
• Master´s degree in Human Rights, Gender Studies, or similar topics.

Experience and skills

Esential

• Experience and strong technical understanding of humanitarian and development work in child protection and protection more broadly. Specially in child participation, case management and community-based approaches.
• Experience strengthening in the services of the child protection system in humanitarian and development contexts.
• Ability to identify gaps in child protection in each context to inform a holistic response for children.
• Experience of and commitment to working through systems of community participation and accountability.

• Demonstrable ability to perform at a national advisory level with strong advocacy and leadership skills, and the ability to mentor and motivate staff.

• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels, considering cultural and language difficulties.

• Understanding of monitoring and evaluation processes and methodologies
• Experience in and commitment to capacity building of staff, partners and communities, with experience in designing and delivering training and in using participatory and consultative approaches.
• Experience of contributing to successful funding proposals for donors.
• Experience in building relationships, fostering interagency coordination and experience of representing an organisation to external stakeholders.
• Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to work both in an advisory and a hands-on implementation capacity.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills.
• Understanding of, and experience in applying, inter-agency standards and guidelines in child protection, including the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, IASC’s guidance for Psychosocial support in Humanitarian Contexts, Minimum Standards for Inclusion and Gender Equality.

Desirable

• Experience and knowledge in human mobility and displacement.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Technical Lead of a National Child Protection System Service.

Key areas of accountability

Technical Leadership

• Lead national child protection strategy development, coordinating with other technical advisors peers of the country to ensure strategies are well integrated.
• Support the development and implementation of thematic priorities to improve the quality of our work including the development and roll-out of common approaches, the scale-up of signature programmes, the embedding of the results framework and any Child Protection global indicators at country level, providing and facilitating access to monitoring and evaluation technical assistance and capacity building opportunities.
• Lead teamwork on child protection assessments using Save the Children assessment processes and tools and the Inter-agency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit. Adapt and contextualize the Assessment Tool.
• Maintain oversight of the child protection sector in the country, including within Save the Children, networking and regularly sharing relevant information with concerned Save the Children regional, other countries, and CP Groups.
• Coordinate with other thematic areas and/or the Child Protection Working Group or other external sector agencies, ensuring assessment findings are documented and that all assessments include a disaggregated analysis of children’s needs.
• Collaborate with the regional child protection and GBV staff in the region and at the global level to use best practice and existing materials for child protection activities.
• Will also collaborate with others in partnership as stated in SC’s Theory of Change.
• Support development of child protection response plans master budgets based on identified needs.
• Contribute to Save the Children’s overall response strategies to ensure child protection is mainstreamed. Support programming in the following areas as appropriate:

1. Strengthening the national and local protection systems and the mechanisms for avoiding re-victimizations in services.
2. Support to the psychosocial wellbeing and resilience of children and their families.
3. Emergency family tracing interventions and alternative care options for unaccompanied and separated children
4. Prevention and response to child recruitment
5. Prevention/response to the main risks for children’s exposure to physical harm
6. Prevention/response to all forms of exploitation including harmful child labour and child trafficking
7. Prevention/response to sexual violence and gender-based violence, including online sexual violence against children.
8. Access to services for the most marginalized populations
9. Integration of child protection into other core sectors

• Support fundraising for child protection, including high-quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with technical advisers from members and donors.
• Provide technical support and oversight to child protection staff implementing programming.
• Oversee programme implementation to ensure timely and quality delivery of programme activities.
• Oversee donor reports on child protection project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements and any relevant external donor requirements.
• Working closely with the HR team, identify child protection staffing needs (both national and international), and ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff.
• Identify CP programme supplies needs and coordinate with supply chain.
• Support development of child protection MEAL plans linked to reporting requirements and provide training for SC and partners’ child protection and MEAL field staff.
• Support development of accountability activities for child protection, ensuring that feedback from all relevant stakeholders is considered in programme design.
• Ensure that the minimum standards of humanitarian relief are maintained in accordance with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, the Sphere Charter and Red Cross Code of Conduct.

Capacity Building:

• Develop capacity gap analysis to inform capacity building plans for both SC and partner staff, linking capacity building initiatives to wider opportunities identified via coordination- and networks.
• To take Save the Children’s Common Approaches courses on topics related to child and adolescent protection and to promote that the SC staff also take them.
• Coach and mentor CP counterparts at project level and link to wider organisational talent development mechanisms.
• Oversee development and delivery of technical training materials.

Representation, Advocacy & Learning:

• Ensure that Save the Children's work is coordinated with efforts of other agencies and governments in child protection, including leadership role within Interagency Humanitarian Coordination forums and other coordination spaces related of Child protection, ensuring the specific needs of children are being addressed. .
• Ensure that learning is maintained in the humanitarian and development responses and that it is used to influence programming, and document lessons learned for wider dissemination.

• In collaboration with programmes, advocacy and campaigns staff, assist in child protection advocacy activities that target decision-makers at all levels.

• In collaboration with Save the Children members, feed in learning, experiences and evidence to relevant global child protection advocacy objectives.

• Pro-actively identify case studies and research opportunities which link with wider organisational strategic objectives.

General:

• Deliver high quality results in line with the objectives agreed in advance – to do this in a way which maintains the reputation of Save the Children.
• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

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